The artful species engages in art behaviours. Commentary on Stephen Davies, The Artful Species. Estetika: the Central European Journal of Aesthetics 7(1): 101-104.

2014

Denis Dutton: Appreciation of the man and discussion of the work. Philosophy and Literature 38:1.

2013

Genesis and development of “Making Special”: Is the concept relevant to aesthetic philosophy? Special Issue: Aesthetic Experience in the Evolutionary Perspective, eds. L. Bartelesi and G. Consoli. Rivista di Estetica. 54:83-98.

2013

Globalism from the bottom up, rather than top down: a Darwinian framework encompasses both art history and rock art studies. Commentary on Oscar Moro Abadia, Rock art stories: standard narratives and their alternatives. Rock Art Research 30(2): 152-53.

2012

“Parasitic” is a lousy way to describe the active nature of art. Response to “The parasitic nature of ‘art’” by Derek Hodgson. Rock Art Research 29(2): 221-223.

2012

The earliest narratives were musical. Research in Music Education 34(1):3-14.

2011

“My glyph is more beautiful than yours,” but does it matter? Response to “Evolutionary aesthetics and sexual selection in the evolution of rock art aesthetics” by Marco Antônio Corrêa Varella, Altay Alves Lino de Souza and José Henrique Benedetti Piccoli Ferreira. Rock Art Research 28(2): 168-171.

2011

Doing without the ideology of art. New Literary History 42(1), 71-79.

2011

Prelinguistic and preliterate substrates of poetic narrative, Special Issue on Narrative and the Emotions, Poetics Today 32(1), 55-79. Download PDF

2011

In the beginning, evolution created religion and the arts, The Evolutionary Review: Art, Science, Culture 2, 64-81.

Motherese is but one part of a ritualized, multimodal, temporally-organized, affiliative interaction. Commentary to Target Article, Prelinguistic evolution in early hominids: Whence motherese? by Dean Falk. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (4): 512-513.

Art in global context: an evolutionary/functionalist perspective for the 21st century, International Journal of Anthropology 18(4):245-258. Special Issue “Conceptualizing World Art,” edited by Eric Venbrux and Pamela Rosi. Download PDF

From play and ritualisation to ritual and its arts: Sources of Upper Pleistocene ritual practices In Lower Middle Pleistocene ritualised and play behaviours in ancestral hominins. In Colin Renfrew, Iain Morley, and Michael Boyd, eds., Play, ritual, and faith in animal and in early human societies. Cambridge University Press.

The universality of the arts in human life. In Joni Maya Cherbo, Margaret J. Wyszomirski, & Ruth Ann Stewart (eds.), Understanding the Arts and Creative Sector in the United States. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, pp. 61-74.

In the beginning: Pleistocene and infant aesthetics and 21st-century education in the arts, in Liora Bresler (ed.), International Handbook of Research in Arts Education. Berlin: Springer, pp. 781-795. Download PDF

Ritual and ritualization: musical means of conveying and shaping emotion in humans and other animals, in Steven Brown & Ulrik Volgsten (eds.), Music and Manipulation: On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music. Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 31-57. Download PDF

Very like art: contemporary self-taught art from an ethological perspective, in Charles Russell (ed.), Self-Taught Art: The Culture and Aesthetics of American Vernacular Art. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, pp. 35-46.

Catalogue, with Interpretive Comments, Hommage à Baudelaire, accompanying an exhibition of works by 19th-century artists about whom Baudelaire wrote in his art criticism. University of Maryland, pp. 29-61.

General Articles on the Arts

2013

The musical impulse [see 2006, below], in Social Sound: Art About Music and What Life Sounds Like. Blokhuispoort Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, pp. 8-9.

2010

Two Essays [see 2001, below], The Haystack Reader: Collected Essays on Craft, 1991-2009. Orono, ME: University of Maine Press and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 175-192.

The art of ritual and the ritual of art, in The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience, 75th Anniversary publication of Penland School of Craft with the Mint Museum of Craft and Design. Asheville, NC: Lark Books, pp. 66-72.

2001

Why public art is necessary, in Penny Balkin Bach (ed.), New Land Marks: Public Art. Community, and the Meaning of Place. Washington D.C.: Grayson Publishing, pp. 26-34.

2001

Two essays: Two orphans and a dog: art and transformation; If “great” art is dead, who cares? Haystack Institute Monograph. Deer Isle, Maine: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, pp. 1-16.

Preview: old culture, new Parliament," Paradise 40:15-17. [Papua New Guinea]

1982

Minnette De Silva: pioneer of modern architecture in Sri Lanka, Orientations (August): 40-51.

1978

The poetry of Jean Arasanayagam," Navasilu II. Colombo: The English Association of Sri Lanka.

1977

The art of George Keyt and the Indian raga, in Felicitations Volume for Keyt’s 75th Birthday. Colombo: George Keyt Felicitations Committee, pp. 93-97.

1976

The poetry of George Keyt: an introduction and an interview, Journal of South Asian Literature 12(1, 2): 91-102. Republished in George Keyt, Collected Poems, Colombo: Keyt Foundation and Institute for Fundamental Studies (Sri Lanka), 1992.